As instructed by the plasterer, Mo gave the plaster a coat of paint to seal it ready for the Artexing.
The Artex man rang up to say he could come earlier than planned and that he would be here Wednesday lunchtime instead of Saturday. That was just right as the plaster had dried [...]

Friday evening our next door neighbour (not the one doing the plastering) came to remove our gas pipe. Unfortunately our floorboards where not cut anywhere. Not even where the pipe came out of the floor. Just look at the hole it left, soooo neat.
That meant that he had to saw [...]

Today, our neighbour popped in and put the scrim on, and will be back Saturday morning to plaster the wall. Mo filled all the holes.
This evening the man who did Sindie’s Artex came and quoted £50 to do it for us. It would cost us almost as much to buy the [...]

On Tuesday Len and sandie came round and while Sandie drank coffee Len set to work. He cemented the hole and put the plasterboard up ready for us to get somebody in to patch the Artex.
In the evening Mo asked our neighbour, who is a builder, if he was interested in doing it for [...]

On Tuesday Len and sandie came round and while Sandie drank coffee Len set to work. He cemented the hole and put the plasterboard up ready for us to get somebody in to patch the Artex.
In the evening Mo asked our neighbour, who is a builder, if he was interested in doing it for [...]

Having popped round to Sindie & Gary’s for a quick ‘cuppa’ the other day, the conversation got around to ……….. well I don’t know what really ……… all I know is that I suddenly heard Sindie, with great excitement, saying “Oh Gary will come around this weekend and knock your fire surround down for [...]

We set off for Buckinghamshire, sandwiches in tow - just as well because we stopped at one of those ’services’ places for a drink. What service? You have to help yourself from a vending machines and as there didn’t appear to be any milk anywhere, we had to have a cup of hot [...]